Since last summer happening behind the scenes of the
World
unexpected scenario: that of a confrontational output of one of the main shareholders of the newspaper, Madison Cox.
On the death of Pierre Bergé in September 2017, this American landscaper, married in the spring of the same year, inherited the 26.7% of the holding company Le Monde Libre that the businessman and patron had acquired in 2010 at the same level. as the founder of Free, Xavier Niel, and the investment banker Matthieu Pigasse.
The famous “BNP” trio.
It had been agreed, since December 2016, nine months before the death of Pierre Bergé, that a shareholders' agreement would apply, allowing the two surviving partners to gradually buy back the shares of his heir, with a deadline set at the end of March 2021.
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This term is approaching.
But nothing goes as planned.
Several legal fronts have erupted.
A first, since the summer of 2020, when Madison Cox demanded the payment of 2.5 million euros owed by Matthieu Pigasse, but the latter did not
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